I play rotational with 7 households in San Myshuno and Brindleton Bay, it is frustrating at times when neighborhood culling happens and some families have forgot all of their friends and past relationships.
I don't ever play the pre-made sims. I have aging turned off for both my own sims and the townies. I have full autonomy on but I disable autonomy for the selected sim. I usually play just 1-3 sims in a household and avoid using apartments. I rarely play toddlers or children. I usually only have a handful of my own families in a save and play them for a while before getting bored of them and switching. I'm not a great builder, all my lots tend to be functional rather than pretty, with the odd exception which look nice from the manage worlds screen.
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I play several households on rotation, some more often than others. Lifespan is on normal and I use full autonomy. At the moment I am mostly rotating between my 18 San Myshuno households and around 10 on other worlds. All of this Sims are connected in some way, so I want them to age in a realistic way - if kids hit the adult stage I switch to their parents to make sure they will be almost elder or even turn to elder. I take care of siblings, so their families will age up around the same time, so cousins will be around the same age and so on. It's a lot of work and I only reached generation 5 in 1.3k played hours, but I like it that way. For the next weeks I will play a bit more relaxed, because nobody should age up, as I have specific plans for all of them when "get famous" will be released.
I mainly focus on rotational play. But when I build, I can take up to a few days to build/decorate a single house. I am a perfectionist, everything needs to be perfect in my eyes.
I play in a lot of different ways so I chose what I did on the poll. The thing I enjoy the most though is building and decorating. I love how many choices there are for decorative items in this game and still wish for more non cc ones I use cc in cas but not in builds.
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I'd say a combination. I love thinking up new sims in CAS to play and build the lots for them to interact in. I'm also a rotational player in which I'll play every household that I create for a certain amount of time and depending on what I want my Sims to do during a session, I will either let them do their own thing or turn freewill off so that they can complete a goal that I set for them.
I do everything but build in my game (TS2 UC). I like to have some control of my Sims (because I can't control what the NPC Dormies do) when it comes to their Needs and college work, but let them have fun and socialize when they want to.
I rotate my family's just because I usually get bored easily and like having different story lines and characters to play around with. It's hard going past the 2nd generation though :(
I do a combination of building, challenges, and gameplay where I just control my family. (but it isn't antfarm) I will dabble in CAS occasionally though.
My origin ID is quiverfullsims | My simblr can be found here. It follows the Rowan family- an extremely conservative clan with nearly 17 children.
I start with a created family and then marry them off mostly to pre-mades and townies and play generations. I also record their lives in a blog. For me, it's mostly about the screenshots because that's my record of the family's story and what happened to them in their lives. The stories are a combination of things I planned and things that they just spontaneously do since I have autonomy on. I also build and decorate so that my world can be just how I want it, but I use buildings from the gallery, too.
I also age everyone up at the same time, so I go in and change hairstyles and outfits, and add wrinkles where needed for my main sim, as well as for their friends and family. Sometimes I make people fatter or skinnier or more or less muscular. I also change room decor or remodel house exteriors or even move people to a different house during this in-between stage if that's realistically what I think would have happened during that time progression. I'm curious if anyone else does this, too.
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sometimes i make a family, sometimes i make a lone sim, sometimes roommates, etc, any excuse i can get to make a new sim in cas. im also obsessed with building houses
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A combination of creating sims in CAS, building, and rotational play.
In my mind they all compliment each other and since I like to have as much control as possible of my worlds, I build every lot, create every sim, and play with as many of them as I can.
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All my creations are CC free.
I would say I play a combination of rotational in the same save (aging off), explore new stuff with sim (though not my simself) and micromanage the sim to attain a challenge. Mostly I create a new sim in CAS, come up with a story and culture for the sim to live and then play regular gameplay fulfilling the life story I've created for the sim :D I seldom find the next generation to be interesting enough to play with since I play aging off or long lifecycle so I usually change the family when the kids have grown to be kids.
Ever since I conceived of the Time Lord Challenge, it's the only way I play the Sims 4. I'm somehow obsessed in roleplaying as a Time Lord, time traveling to different places and socializing with the people of its era. Hoping we get a futuristic expac soon.
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Lifespan is on normal and I use full autonomy. At the moment I am mostly rotating between my 18 San Myshuno households and around 10 on other worlds. All of this Sims are connected in some way, so I want them to age in a realistic way - if kids hit the adult stage I switch to their parents to make sure they will be almost elder or even turn to elder. I take care of siblings, so their families will age up around the same time, so cousins will be around the same age and so on.
It's a lot of work and I only reached generation 5 in 1.3k played hours, but I like it that way.
For the next weeks I will play a bit more relaxed, because nobody should age up, as I have specific plans for all of them when "get famous" will be released.
Haha, same goes for me if am starting a new game cas is my main thing i start with then either pick house or get one from gallery.
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I also age everyone up at the same time, so I go in and change hairstyles and outfits, and add wrinkles where needed for my main sim, as well as for their friends and family. Sometimes I make people fatter or skinnier or more or less muscular. I also change room decor or remodel house exteriors or even move people to a different house during this in-between stage if that's realistically what I think would have happened during that time progression. I'm curious if anyone else does this, too.
On EA forum Stories and Legacies board and on QueenOfMyshuno.tumblr.com
In my mind they all compliment each other and since I like to have as much control as possible of my worlds, I build every lot, create every sim, and play with as many of them as I can.
All my creations are CC free.